abstract:The alleged finding of human remains, designated San Geronimo, in 1853 afforded striking confirmation of an incident recorded by a Spanish Benedictine named Diego de Haëdo, who published a topography of Algeria in 1612. Haëdo sets forth the legend that a young Arab who had embraced Christianity, and had been baptized with the name of Geronimo, had been captured by a Moorish corsair in 1569 and taken to Algiers.